Chinese government monitors with App million citizens

China's police uses according to the "Humans Rights Watch", an App to monitor millions of people. The displays, for example, the consumption of electricity: those Who use a lot, is suspicious.

Steffen root, ARD Studio in Shanghai

Who tried in the North-West of China, Western Messenger services like WhatsApp or Telegram, and must expect to be arrested and to be in an internment camp during world war II. The Reason Is That Terrorism Is Suspected.

The same is true for people who use home often times the back entrance instead of the front door. The same is true for people who use home often times the back entrance instead of the front door. In Xinjiang, it is - at least in the cities - often only possible to enter the building with a chip card or by face recognition. Anyone who handles this type of Monitoring and, for example, the patio door used, later leaves the house again through the front door, a suspect in the Muslim Region of Xinjiang, says Sophie Richardson of Human Rights Watch.

residents and security forces in Xinjiang: those Who notice the device in suspicion of terrorist activities.

Via Big Data analysis of the behavior of the citizens of

According to research by the human rights lobby group, China's state and party leadership, a special App is developed with the help of which you will equip the security agencies in Xinjiang. check This App can check, therefore, police officers at a glance, what is "eye-catching" forms of behaviour are recorded about a Person in the national monitoring databases.

"Human Rights Watch" has published the results of the research today in a 68-page Report. The Chinese economic authorities take advantage of the special Surveillance App, therefore, is to analyze by Big Data analysis of the behavior of the people in Xinjiang and to draw Suspicious even easier. The human rights Association was able to view the source code of the Chinese Surveillance App and in detail analyze.